LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 171, 10 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow's supplement will runlain some inteivslinn features. The Ahiuri legend. " lutanekai and llincnioa," U ad- ! vanml another rflag<*. Tivorapital shoil \ stories appear, besides articles of special j interest to Indhs. aniojlg which are "A Uaiigvr to S(ni<'ty." •\'aii Women Keep 1 a Secret?" •".Marriage Law Mistakes.'' Lett by Stage Folk." Personal Pars. cie. Other articles include: "Do 1 Kxhibition- Pav7" "S<'iis;iiii»is.'' •*Lay- : ing-up." ••Successful Sentences," "The | Provident .Moment of .My Life." etc. The spoiling topics appear as usual. On Wednesday. 13ih inst.. the s.s. Ngapuhi will not sail from the breakwater till II.:>o p.m.. lo meet the convenience of [he British football team, which leaves for Auckland after the I'aranaki mulch. M is Mated that, the StratfordWhangamoniona road is a I present in :i woiv condition than imkil. One waggon is said to have taken four days to reach Whangannmioiia from Douglas, a distance of seventeen miles. 1 Cable •eTTminunicalion between New Zealand and Australia Was iulerrupu'il last evening owing io'ttiuuder st-U'ms on ihu*"Australian eoasl. As a consequence press cables did not come lo liand till very late, those Tor tlie 'Daily s'* not reaeliing here till four I O'clock, 1 The IS7lb mangold referred to in our last issue soul) fouuil.a competitor, ilessts. Jenkins, Alattliews and IMgott, of Waitara, inform us that they have on exhibition at their mart one weighing -I lib. The root was grown by Davidson Jiros. al Waihi, the seed ami manure being supplied by ilii' lii'm. Messrs. David: on's sample is not a solitary large one picked from the main crop, many more being its equal in size, whilst the ; whole crop would maintain a big aver-

age weight. guotli an excitable Maori at llio race,eouiw yesterday: "(to it. 'i'iiraiiaki! I win i In- cjim' lu-dav. now you ought to win." Ilis mascot te was unavailing, however. ami iiis clui|iicnce failed, too, to gel. Jiiin on to the lield of play wit lion t payment i»f tin* stipulated "coloniif robert/' lie turned away from the jjatekeeper, and Jin chameleon-like nature was revealed in his roar: 'do it. Canterbury! Tan.jaki. lie won't let me in!" Shortly .afterwards his five fent four inclus and about, fourteen stone avoirdupois was stripped for football. A trap accideul occuneil <m l!ie Stanley road on .Wondav (savs the Stratford Po*U. Mr. A. Alexander, of MoUivoa. and Mr. \V. I'owdrell. of flawera, were driving out in a Cortlund and oil the first steep hill the brake j-ave way. causing Ihe horses to oiil of eoni rol. 11l endeavoring to keep (lie conveyance to tlie hank j !ii.- s'-nt was jcrki'd oiil. throwing both oeeiipanis heavily to Ihe ground. Mr. Powdtvll was >everly bruised by jammed briween [ire imp and the bunk, and Mr. Alexander wsis rendered unconscions by falling on his head on the metal. The team vnmr- to a standstill hv smashing into 'lie tVnee near Pill Urns.* woolshed. This is about the fourth accident t hat has happened o» this hill this year.

The übiquitous microbe is being hunted from pillar to post, ilis extirpation in one place of abode has no sooner been arranged for than his hunters discover another of his hiding pbc-cs. For years lie has snugly .-ecrctoil liim-elf among the books of the circulating libraries, and travelled therein from lliouse to house; lint his end is near, so far. at least, as tlie Xewtown Public Library is concerned (s;n< the Wellington nonunion I. for in the extensive additions now being carried 'Cut in lite building, provision is to be made for a lethal chamber b>r the inievohe. fu future, no bool; which is returned to the library by a subscriber will be allowed to go out again until it lias been twelve hours in the fumigating clumber. It is expected that tlie Central biliary will follow suit.

There is at present oil view in Messrs. Crayson and Cock's window a cnmpMc model of a steamship, made by .Mr S. W. JVddi". of X'ew Plymouth'. Tlie s.s. Hamuli. as she is called, is a bhilf-looking cargo steamer, replete with Hoists, derricks. launches, life-boats, lifc-ralts. and so on. A tiny propeller, driven by an electric motor.' is capable of developing a fair rate of speed for üboiil two hour's voyage, at the completion of which she is re-charged automatically antl the little vessel resumes her way. A noticeboard at the gangway announces that the .Maiiani is to sail for some destination not named, tiii.- d'|. ending io »ome measure up on foe d'Miiieile ot ihe buyer. The steamer is the central ligure ol the window show of Xew /.calami manufactures.

Liiviug evidence in tli«' shearing di>Inilo before Dm Arbitration Court at CUristclwwli Ml-, (iemrp Gardiner, a farnier, of AKflbury, said In: hail followed tlii' slicalinir in Australia in 18!) I, INI):!, IS'J'J, and since then he hail still been connected witli sheep. Scaring was the must, profitable tiling a man could turn lu, if 111.' had only his hands to depend on. lli' hud shorn bctivcen 70.UH0 and 81)1)00 in throe vcars. and Unit Inul enabled him to take up ~ run in C'lh'vio 1 , J I'm had *ieeeived tl n hundred. ami found himself. Tim wool of Australian slu'i'ji ill a dry .mason Mar, lull of sand, willi-11 damaged the eoiulis inul cutters. Australian sheep were liardei' to shear ihan .\'ew Zealand sheep. A shearer's le.t was now considerably easier than it was ten years ago, ami Ihe food was heller. The Saturday half-holiday was not applicable to Xew Zealand, for it was a "wicked waste nf time,'' ou account of the lost time during the week.

(In a road near Levin one day last week two lads had an altercation about some marbles, and after "jawing'' eacn other came to blows. Two workmen came along, and instead of trying to make peace, encouraged llioi-'lads to have it out. and promised sixpence to the one who knocked llie oilier out. Then the light commenced in earnest, and the two men stood and "barracked,'' one man prompting lad and fhe other man the other lad. They kept Hie boy- at il for nearly an hour. h\ which lime their Hollies were torn, tiieir faces and knuckles blending, and they were liotli ■■winded.'' At last one ■of the boys gnu- in. and the men. after telling them Miey hail had a "good ii'glll,'' went, oil their way. without paving over the promised sixpence. Men of this stamp (says the Manawalu .farmer) deserve the name of "brutes.and il is a |>Uy thai Uh> luw eould not havi; ill''in in its jrrip fur punishment. After having tin- nf the 'Napier Daily Telegraph ill hi> luunJ* for many years. Mr. K. \V. Knowtes this niojifli IraiNfem'd iiis controlling interest t<» "Messr*. Tlrett ami Gertclis. of Auckland. When Mr. Knowh-s went In Napier 2K years ago to found Uie Tole£v.ij>h, he hejr-.m svilh a vi»vy <wva\\ sheet. ]>y patience, industry. ami fair dealing Ik- made ilie paper ilourMi: Meadilv ir made headway willi Uie process of tho town, and did i's full >liai'c in keeping Xapier ninviiijr on the highway o&advaiweiufui. Tln'-e facu were graeffullv aeknnwledLifil l»y ilie TeleoTHph's morning eoiiti'inpnrary. 1 lie liawke'- T'.a.V Tieraid. In a valedielosy iiuliec tlie Herald liiplily Mi. h»i- hi- ruiiduet of Uie evening paper. ! Tlie personal relation- existing helveen Uie man-ajj'-nienN nf the I\v» pujn-n." >avs the Herald, "have always lieni of a friendly ehiivai'ter. and u T e have (o exjiress indidiii'diif.— u» Mr Kiunvles I'm- having »- sisled u> at times in thine emergencies w'liieii may occur in any rslablishnicni."